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I- J. COCAYNE. GAR SPITTooN.v

No. 596,455. Patented Dec. 28, 1,897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

ISIDORE J. OOOAYNE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO PETER STREBLER, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,455, dated December 28, 1897.

Application led September 15, 1897. Serial No. 651,741. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, IsrDoEE J. COCAYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St.

Louis, in the State of Missouri, have inventedv certain new and useful Improvements in Car- Spittoons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof. Y.

My invention has relation to car-spittoons; and it consists in the novel arrangement and combinations of parts more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims. In the drawings, Figurel is'a vertical section of my complete invention as applied to the floor of a car. Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line :n x of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line yy of Fig. 1.

The object of my invention is to construct a car-spittoon which will not be an obstruction on the oor of the car, one that can at any time be'cleaned by the employment of steam from any suitable source, but particularly from the locomotive, and one that comprises other novel features hereinafter more fully described.

. In detail the invention may be described as follows:

In the drawings, 1 and 1' represent, respectively, the upper and lower walls composing the floor of the car. VVthin the floor is l0- cated a funnel-shaped receptacle 2, the Lipper -the flange 3 of the funnel 2, and formed on the inner surface of the deiiector is ledge 9, upon which rests the flange 10 of a removable grate 11, which protects the interior of the spittoon. Passing transversely through the funnel 2 at a convenient point is a steam-pipe 12, leading from the steam-supply of a locomotive, and in communication with said pipe and located centrally within the funnel 2 is a short pipe 13. Projecting upwardly and located loosely around said pipe is a tubular extension 14 of a piston 15, whereby a space 16 is left for the passage of steam. The piston is preferably made of hard rubber in order to insure a steam-tight union between its flange 17 and the lower edge of the defiector 7 when the latter is elevated in a manner hereinafter described. Secured to the upper Wall 1 of the floor and around the spittoon is a guideway 1S, which receives a slide 19, for entirely covering the spittoon when it is not in use.

When the spittoon is in use, the parts assume the position seen in Fig. 1, the liquid passing through the grate 11 and upon the piston 15, through the annular space 20, between the lower edge of the deiiector 7 and the annular flange 17 of said piston, dropping down into the lower portion of the funnel 2, into the pipe 4c, extension 5, and nally over the upwardly-turned end 6, as shown by the arrow.

Should it at any time be desired to clean the spittoon, steam is admitted into the pipe 12 by the valve 2 1 from a source hereinbefore stated,'the pressure of which causes the piston 15 to rise, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, the annular iiange 17 thereof coming in contact with the lower edge of the deiector 7, thus preventing the steam from passing into the car, the-only escape for the steam being through the annular space 1G between the pipe 13 and the extension let of the piston 15. The steam escaping thus will pass down into the lower portion of the funnel and out, carrying with it any accumulation, and thus cleansing the spittoon thoroughly. After the steam is cut oif the piston 15 will drop and assume its normal position.

Any number of spittoons can be arranged along the'pipe 12, each spittoon being in steam connection with one another, the steam-supply being connected with one end of the pipe 12, and the opposite terminal end of said pipe closed by a cap 21 in the usual manner be- IOO l. A spittoonvcomprising a receptacle, a steam-pipe -in communication -With -the interior of said receptacle and means loeatedwithin the latter, and adapted to be actuated by the pressure of steam for directing the steam through the outlet of the receptacle, substantially-as set forth.

2. A spittoon comprising a suitablereceptacle, a pipe in communication With the loottom of the same, a horizontal extension 5, leading from said pipe, an upWardly-turnedg end leading from said horizontal extension a conical deflector located within the receptacle, a grate covering the deector, a steampipe passing through the receptaclea short pipe leadinglfrom saidA steampipefand located Within "the receptacle, a A-tubular extension loosely passed over the short pipe leaving a suitable space and a piston carried by the tubular extension and adapted to come in con- Itact with the `lower edge of the deector.

'In testimony whereof I affix. my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

ISIDORE J. COCAYNE.

Witnesses:

C. F. KELLER, PETER STREBEER. 

